Okay, so here it is, a year later, another blood test (taken two weeks ago). I get mailed all the results if there isn't any particular area of concern (in which case I get summoned before I see the report, but that's happened only one time), and then ask questions the next time I see the physician.
Apparently all's okay, because I got mailed the report.
Numbers from last year (actually February 2011) in red.
Total cholesterol 139 128
High Density Lipoproteins 28 31
Low Density Lipoproteins 90 90
Triglycerides 107 109
Fasting Blood Sugar 94 96
White Blood Cells 11.1 14.6
Neutropils (Absolute) 7.9 8.2
I assume it's all good, which surprised me because I'm trying to quit smoking, and I'm sure the lack of nicotine has screwed with all the other body chemistry. (I had quit about a week before this blood test was taken.)
For the record, I do not recall any blood test taken in my adult life where the White Blood Cells ever placed within the "normal," always being slightly a wee little bit on the high side. We're talking 30+ years here, and I suspect, either correctly or incorrectly, that it shows an immune system that's working very well, because I'm sure I'm exposed to enough infections that things would be considerably worse if the immune system wasn't so good.
At any rate, no physician looking at my long-term records has ever indicated any unease about that one.
This test was taken because given genetic propensities, I'm supposed to be diabetic, hypertensive, and overcholesteroled......but for some reason that pleases God, I'm not. Both parents and all the six older brothers and sisters had high blood pressure. My father and all the six older brothers and sisters developed diabetes at times between their late 20s and their early 40s. I know some of them, maybe all of them, had problems with cholesterol, but can't break them down. I assume my avoidance of grease has something to do with my avoidance of problems in this thing.
The low blood pressure (it was 98/61 at the time of this test) is of course extraordinary considering 30 years of chain-smoking, but it's not exactly unheard-of. It apparently just doesn't happen enough (i.e., provide enough samples for study) for anyone to figure anything out about it.
One physician pointed out that fiber and roughage affect not only the absorbive and digestive channels, but the blood vessels too, and so my guess is that I've not only been roto-rootering the intestines, but also the blood vessels, because the diet is roughly, 6-8 times the minimum recommended daily allowance of fiber.
That's my guess anyway; anyone is free to disagree, pointing out where they think it might be wrong.
I don't consider this "asking for medical advice from strangers on the internet," because of course in real life I ask the physician. But I was impressed that last year, NHSparky was on-spot, no deviations, from what the physician later told me, too.
The only question I have to ask the physician the next time I see him (in three weeks) is, if excessive intake of fiber has something to do with tearing up the guts inside. As many here know, I have ulcers. But that, I blame on the stresses and tension and sweaty terror involved with daily, hourly, minutely, masquerading as a hearing person when I'm in fact not.
The only health "issue" at the moment is quitting smoking, which has lately turned me into a convulsive unmellow personality, snarling and biting at anything that moves (other than the innocent cats; I can control that), and chewing on the ceiling. But I remain defiantly confident.
